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2016-11-01 09:58:58.363

Lottery Offices Serve as Toys for Tots Donation Sites

Through Dec. 15, all four Missouri Lottery offices will serve as official donation sites for this year’s Toys for Tots Program. Run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Toys for Tots works to collect new, unwrapped toys each year and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the community.

"We are happy to partner with Toys for Tots and to collect gifts for this wonderful program," said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery.

New, unwrapped toys may be dropped off by Dec. 15 at any Missouri Lottery office between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays. Lottery offices are located at the following locations:

1823 Southridge Drive in Jefferson City

3630 Arrowhead Ave. in Independence

1506 E. Raynell in Springfield

1831 Craig Park Ct. in St. Louis

More than 97 percent of all donations goes to the Toys for Tots mission of providing toys, books and other gifts to less fortunate children.